/ask-search

name: ask-search
description: "Web search via self-hosted SearxNG. Aggregates Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave. Returns title/url/snippet. Zero API key required."

ask-search

Web search powered by [SearxNG](https://github.com/searxng/searxng). Aggregates multiple search engines, zero API key, full privacy.

Usage

ask-search "your query"                    # top 10 results
ask-search "query" --num 5                 # limit results
ask-search "AI news" --categories news     # news only
ask-search "query" --lang zh-CN            # Chinese results
ask-search "query" --urls-only             # URL list (pipe to web_fetch)
ask-search "query" --json                  # raw JSON

Agent Workflow

1. Run `ask-search "topic"` to get candidates 2. Check snippet — if enough, answer directly 3. If snippet truncated, use `web_fetch` on the URL for full content

Parameters

| Flag | Short | Description | |------|-------|-------------| | `--num N` | `-n` | Max results (default 10) | | `--engines` | `-e` | google,bing,duckduckgo,brave | | `--lang` | `-l` | zh-CN, en, ja, ko | | `--categories` | `-c` | general,news,images,science | | `--json` | `-j` | Raw JSON output | | `--urls-only` | `-u` | URLs only |

Setup

Requires SearxNG running locally. Set `SEARXNG_URL` if not on default port 8080.